Students propose New European Educational
Programme
European Education Campaign
– EURECA, a project run in 2002 by AEGEE (the European Students
Forum), has been concluded with a draft
of a new European Education Programme. It proposes to introduce “Blended
Learning”, wider use of summer courses combined with the e-learning. Education
programs should be implemented with special focus on exchanges between EU and
candidate countries, also for future rounds of
enlargement.
According to AEGEE,
education does not sufficiently reflect a European dimension. Current education
programmes reach a limited target group and do not integrate formal, informal
and non – formal techniques.
In 2002 European Students’
Forum (AEGEE) focused its activities on higher education. With the Yearly Plan –
European Education Campaign (EURECA), students aimed at producing a new
education program for Europe. "It's been a big challenge for AEGEE to run this
project. We are happy that we have managed to come up with concrete results",
states Mark de Beer, the president of AEGEE-Europe. “We strongly believe that
Community policies should not only focus on increasing competitiveness and
creating a mobile workforce, but put more emphasis on educating students in a
holistic way in order to enhance the feeling of European citizenship”, adds
Mark.
In the framework of EURECA,
AEGEE organized in 2002 a series of conferences throughout Europe, dedicated to
analyzing the main pillars that influencing the European dimension of education:
Universities, Governmental Institutions on European, national and sub-national
levels, private sector, media/ICT, and Non-Governmental Organisations. The
results contain the recommendations for the future concerning each of these
issues. The project also resulted in evaluating the existing Community programs,
such as Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci or Youth and identifying the impact
education programs had on enlargement and on education in candidate countries.
Finally, the draft of a new education programme has been
prepared.
“In
order to complement the current programs, we propose to include in the next
generation of education programs a form of “Blended Learning”, combining
aspects of presence learning and e-learning/distance learning for merging
physical mobility with virtual mobility” concludes Karina Häuslmeier, the
coordinator of the project.
You can download o copy of
the proposal of a new education program
at: www.aegee.org/documents/yearplan.
European
Education Campaign was supported by the Members of European Parliament: Lissy
Gröner, Roy Perry, Luis Marinho, Christa Randzio-Plath, the President of the
German Conference of Rectors - Prof. Dr. Klaus Landfried and College of
Europe.
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information please write to: [log in to unmask] or call:
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For
more information on EURECA project go to: http://www.aegee.org/eureca
Responsible:
Karolina Pomorska